Contents

Introduction

1. This document sets out criteria for the Healthcare Retail
Standard (
HRS). It is
the third version, published in October 2016.

2. Chief Executive Letter (
CEL) 01 (2012)
sets out the vision under the health promoting health service that
"
every healthcare contact is a health improvement
opportunity". On food and health, boards were required to:

"
develop a consistent approach to healthy eating for all food
service providers across the
NHS. Caterers
will be required to follow Healthyliving Award (
HLA) criteria at the
point of contract (re)negotiation and retailers will be required to
join the Scottish Grocers Federation (
SGF)
Healthyliving Programme (
HLP) and meet
their Gold Standard criteria at the point of contract
(re)negotiation."

3. The criteria set in this document form the
HRS that
retailers now need to follow as outlined in Section E of the Chief
Medical Officer letter (2015) 19 of 9 October 2015
[1]. Timescales for compliance are detailed in that document.
Practical guidance on how retailers can meet the criteria in this
document will be produced by the Scottish Grocers Federation (
SGF) Healthy
Living Programme.

4. This document has been developed with the kind assistance of
NHS Health
Scotland,
NHS National
Services Scotland, Food Standards Scotland and the Scottish Grocers
Federation with images courtesy of the Royal Voluntary Service and
SGF Healthy
Living Programme.